It would be useful to be able to deploy Web Help on a local machine without a HTTP server.Sadly, Internet Explorer and many other browsers block JavaScript from local files.That entirely breaks context help.

For this reason and for other script averse situations it would be nice ifWeb Help worked fully without JavaScript.

You could even make the tree navigation work without JavaScript.http://www.thecssninja.com/css/css-tree-menuMight require extra XSLT trickery to make the current page always be folded open when you navigate to it, though.

We will look into this but we have quite a lot of Javascript functionality (for example we also need JS for the search part).

If you are using Oxygen 17 to produce WebHelp, the output folder should contain an XML file called context-help-map.xml which maps each topic ID to the corresponding HTML document. So hypothetically you could create an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet, apply it over the XML file and use the result-document function to produce for each ID an HTML document with that redirect refresh metadata in place.

Also in the output folder there is an "index_frames.html", it still uses Javascript in some places but it is better suited for offline use.

What specific issues are you experiencing with JavaScript?Have you tried 'index_frames.html' (instead of 'index.html')?As my colleague mentioned, if you are working with offline/local WebHelp, this is better suited for that purpose.